US intentions murky on natural gas policy

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With Analysis From Monitor Correspondents Around The world,
Edited By Susan Garland /
February 4, 1982

Washington

The administration is sending mixed signals on its intentions toward a natural gas windfall-profits tax and decontrol.

Treasury Secretary Donald Regan told the National Press Club Tuesday that President Reagan has no immediate plan to seek a decontrol bill from Congress. Later Mr. Regan's office issued a clarification of the secretary's statement, saying Regan did not mean to rule out decontrol legislation but was only ruling out a windfall-profits tax.